Bio
Karsten Creightney grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He received his BA from Antioch College in 2000. He completed the Tamarind Institute’s Professional Printer Training Program in 2001 and received his MFA from the University of New Mexico in 2011. Creightney works in multiple media combining prints, paint, photographs, and found materials to create images that capture the partly lived, partly imagined sense of place experienced in memory. His work is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Smithsonian Archives of American Art, and numerous other institutions. He is currently an assistant printmaking professor at the University of New Mexico.
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Education
2011 - MFA University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
2001 - Tamarind Institute of Lithography Professional Printer Training Program Albuquerque, NM
2000 - BA Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 - Fragments and Selected Scraps, Wichita Falls Museum of Art, Wichita Falls, Texas
2022 - Pieces, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2021 - Alcoves 2020 #4, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2018 - Occupied Territory, Exhibit 208, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2017 - Paper Visions, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2012 - Karsten Creightney: Works on Paper, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 - Expressions: Works on Paper, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint Michigan
2022 - Many Americas, Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, Vermont
- Art on Paper (Pier 36, New York, New York
- Technologies of the Spirit, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2022
- The Printer’s Proof, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Creating an American Identity, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri
2021 - Common Ground: Art in New Mexico, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Dwelling: Experiences of Shelter, Wichita Falls Museum of Art at MSU, Wichita Falls Texas
- Printed Matters, Kruglak Art Gallery, Oceanside, California
2020 - Charcoal: Strokes of Vitality, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Radical Reimaginings, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2020
- Trinity: Reflections on the Bomb Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Community, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan
2019 - African American Art from the Permanent Collection, Indiana Tech, Fort Wayne, Indiana
- Creating an American Identity, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri
- Prints by Southwest, (South Broadway Cultural Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2017
2017 - Prints from the Permanent Collection, Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit Michigan
- Songs from the Extraction Zones, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico,
2016 - Off the Record, Inpost Artspace, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2015 - Common Ground, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Michigan.
- Visualizing Albuquerque, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2014 - The Bold and the Beautiful, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana
- Black and White, Inpost Artspace, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- History and Hope, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
2013 - Indelible Images, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana
2012 - Once Upon a Time: Prints that Tell Stories, Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan
- Local Exposure, Selby Fleetwood Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- New Voices, New Visions, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana
2011 - Celebrating Diversity in Art, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri
- Wishful Thinking, SCA Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2010 - Zanatta Editions, Sherry Leedy Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
- Emergent Visions: Young Antiochians Make Art, Herndon Gallery, Yellow Springs, Ohio
- Inprint II, SCA Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Collections
Antioch College - Yellow Springs, Ohio
Arkansas Art Center – Little Rock, Arkansas
Beach Museum of Art - Manhattan, Kansas
Belger Arts Center - Kansas City, Missouri
Bernalillo County Public Art Collection - Albuquerque, New Mexico
Cleveland Museum of Art - Cleveland, Ohio
Detroit Institute of Art - Detroit, Michigan
Flint Institute of Arts - Flint, Michigan
Fort Wayne Museum of Art - Fort Wayne, Indiana
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts - Kalamazoo, Michigan
Muskegon Museum of Art - Muskegon, Michigan.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts - Minneapolis, Minnesota
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art - Kansas City, Missouri
Smithsonian Archives of American Art – Washington DC
Springfield Museum of Art - Springfield, Missouri
Tama University Art Museum - Kyoto, Japan
Tweed Museum University of Minnesota - Duluth Minnesota
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery- Nashville Tennessee
Whitney Museum of American Art – New York City, New York
Wichita Falls Art Museum at Midwestern State University- Wichita Falls, Texas